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Documentary film-makers Lauren Southern and Caolan Robertson have released shocking new recordings in which the director of a major NGO in Europe told their undercover team how she teaches migrants to lie and pretend to be persecuted Christians to border police. By – Cassandra Fairbanks Scroll 4Video Ariel Ricker, Executive Director of Advocates Abroad, was caught in the recordings admitting that ...

Saudi officials planned the savage murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi days before his death, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. By – Ryan Gaydos Scroll 4Video Erdogan revealed the details of the country’s investigation into Khashoggi’s killing after he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, contradicting Saudi Arabia’s explanation that the writer was killed in ...

Worshippers at at Turkish mosque have been praying the wrong way for nearly 40 years. The mosque in Sugoren in the country’s west was built incorrectly in 1981, the Hurriyet Daily News reported. By – Ross Ibbetson The new imam Isa Kaya, 24, addressed rumours of the design flaw and consulted with local muftis, the village elders. The muftis said the Mihrab, a niche built into ...

While Turkey’s latest mosque is being inaugurated in Germany, the greatest Christian Orthodox theological school has remained closed for almost 50 years by the order of the Turkish government. Moreover, less than a kilometer away from the shuttered Christian seminary, a major new center of Islamic studies spanning a total area of 200 acres is scheduled to be built. By ...

The Turkish President has demanded an ‘end to racism’ while criticising the treatment of Germany’s national football team players during a controversial state visit. By – Claire Anderson President Erdogan spoke out today at the inauguration ceremony of Europe’s biggest mosque in Cologne. He decried the backlash against Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan for taking a picture with him in London earlier ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wrapped up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force to manage the rival rallies. By – AFP Scrooll 4Video The inauguration will mark the closing event of his three-day state visit, aimed at repairing frayed ties with Berlin after ...

The German Federation of Journalists (DJV) and Amnesty International (AI) have announced they will hold a joint rally in Berlin to protest Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s state visit this month. By – dw.com The head of the German Federation of Journalists (DJV) on Thursday described Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s upcoming state visit to Germany as a “slap in the face,” ...

Turkey is in a mess. Its currency is in a tailspin and inflation is out of control. There really is a lot going on so here are some key things you need to know. By – Simon Constable Qatar Providing Help The oil-rich state promised $15 billion in support of Turkey and cut an agreement to help stabilize the lira. Those ...

Last week the center party’s top candidate in Gothenburg, Mikail Yüksel, was excluded. That after he admitted to the party leadership that he was trying to establish a branch of the High Extreme Turkish Organization Gray Wolves in Sweden. By – Brünnhilde It is now apparent that the party knew for more than a year and that as Yüksel himself told it to the ...

Loving one’s native culture and feeling comfortable in it is normal. Western leaders have respected the rights of new immigrants to love the cultures from which they have come. But unfortunately, those same leaders are tearing apart their own cultures by turning love of one’s own country into an unforgivable sin, when it is expressed by native citizens of Western ...